Berlin broadcasts demonstrate audio codec: News from Coding Technologies

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The world's first compliant DVB-H broadcasts using MPEG-4 aacPlus are currently being delivered during the 2005 IFA exhibition in Berlin. The broadcasts, featuring both 5.1 multichannel and stereo programming, can be received across Berlin using DVB-H compliant PDA-based receivers. DVB-H is the new standard for mobile TV, enabling the reception of digital broadcasts and data services on a variety of mobile devices.

MPEG-4 aacPlus from Coding Technologies is the audio codec standardised within DVB.

The broadcasts are the result of co-operation between T-Systems and Coding Technologies.

aacPlus is billed as the most efficient audio codec worldwide, providing highest audio quality at lowest bitrates as demonstrated in multiple independent tests.

The EBU (European Broadcasting Union) named aacPlus 'a clear winner' in its 'Subjective listening test on low-bitrate audio codecs', outperforming all other codecs in the test conducted in 2003.

With its high level of efficiency, aacPlus ensures maximum diversity of programming at the best listening experience, and is a key enabler for the success of DVB-H.

'Mobile audio and video services are highly attractive for consumers', says Stefan Meltzer, Vice President Business Development Coding Technologies.

'DVB-H solves the problem of constrained bandwidth in unicasting and is the next big step in the mobile multimedia world'.

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News Release from: Coding Technologies Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 5 September 2005

Berlin broadcasts demonstrate audio codec

The world's first compliant DVB-H broadcasts using MPEG-4 aacPlus are currently being delivered during the 2005 IFA exhibition in Berlin.

Note: Readers of the Editor’s free email newsletter will have read this news when it was announced. . It’s free!

News Release from: Coding Technologies
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 5 September 2005